I really, really enjoyed this essay, on more points than I can list. Just so you can get a sense of its overall effect, you've inspired me now to read these other works of GBS, and to see the Leslie Howard Pygmalion. (We have everyone home now, and we were saying, "What good thing can we put on Netflix?" Since the ninja girl was very disappointed to have missed seeing Lesley Howard's Pimpernel, maybe this will be a good substitute--and conversation provoking, as well, seems like.)
--Yes, really you've made me think a lot about George Bernard Shaw, I think.
But also about the effectiveness of different portrayals of character.
Can you elaborate on Footnote 1? The first link requires logging in (and I'm lazy), and when I searched on Flipping Hades Terwilliger (surname only known to me from the Simpsons), I found him as a character in Daniel Pinkwater books, so I'm confused.
Another thought that occurred: intellectual rivalry (cf footnote 2). Do you think--and I'm only asking, not challenging, because it's been a while since I saw My Fair Lady, and I haven't seen Pygmalion--that it needs to be a sense of rivalry that opens up Higgins? That is, is that he senses someone who is superior to him in some way? And if so... if so... hmm, I wonder what the more general question is that I want to ask, but I can't frame it now--must go wake people up. More anon, maybe.
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--Yes, really you've made me think a lot about George Bernard Shaw, I think.
But also about the effectiveness of different portrayals of character.
Can you elaborate on Footnote 1? The first link requires logging in (and I'm lazy), and when I searched on Flipping Hades Terwilliger (surname only known to me from the Simpsons), I found him as a character in Daniel Pinkwater books, so I'm confused.
Another thought that occurred: intellectual rivalry (cf footnote 2). Do you think--and I'm only asking, not challenging, because it's been a while since I saw My Fair Lady, and I haven't seen Pygmalion--that it needs to be a sense of rivalry that opens up Higgins? That is, is that he senses someone who is superior to him in some way? And if so... if so... hmm, I wonder what the more general question is that I want to ask, but I can't frame it now--must go wake people up. More anon, maybe.